Racket Attack

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Item Description

Few 8-bit tennis games let you argue with the line judge, but Racket Attack does. Developed by Tose and published by Jaleco in 1988, it is the North American version of Moero!! Pro Tennis, part of the same Moero!! sports family that brought Bases Loaded to the NES, and it aims for something more realistic than the cartoonish tennis games around it.

The roster is impressively deep for its day: sixteen players, eight men and eight women, each with their own strengths and weaknesses, and men's and women's draws played separately. Matches can be played on grass, clay or hard court, and the surface matters. The controls split the court in two, with one button handling front-court shots and the other the backcourt, and six different strokes, among them the lob, the volley and the slice, give rallies more variety than the usual two-button swing. When you step up to serve, the camera drops in over your player's shoulder, a broadcast-style flourish that gives the game a sense of occasion.

The single-player tournament is the main event: win your way past steadily tougher opponents, seven straight matches on the men's side, to lift the championship trophy, with a password system saving your statistics so a long campaign can be picked up later. Two players can go head-to-head in exhibition matches, which is where the timing and shot placement really start to matter, because a friend will punish a lazy return far faster than the computer.

Racket Attack sits in the sweet spot between arcade fun and early sports simulation. For collectors building out Jaleco's sports line, or anyone who wants a more thoughtful NES tennis game than Nintendo's own launch-era Tennis, it is an easy one to recommend.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1988
Publisher
Jaleco
Genre
Sports
About the game

This is no amateur hour. This one's for keeps. The national finals. Will you play tough enough to hear the umpire call "point, set, match!" A million eyes bore into you from the stands. Moments to start... RACKET ATTACK has made you a pro, the toughest, most awesome champ ever to hit center court. You've a power serve and a ferocious backhand. You're fearsome at the net and in the backcourt. On clay or grass you attack. But your opponent knows your game. And he's ready. Screams go up as you step to the base line. It's 100 degrees. Your service. You launch it like a rocket. Ace... Let... Fault! The umpires' call reminds you to hang tough and be consistent. 15 love... 30 love... 40 love... MATCH POINT. Sweating, you grip your racket. The crowd hushes. Can you deliver an ace? Bear down. Psych up. Get tough!

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